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Andean Community (English or Spanish)
"...is a subregional organization endowed with an international legal status, which is made up of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela and the bodies and institutions comprising the Andean Integration System (AIS)."
Sections include: Trade in Goods ; Trade in Services ; Customs Union ; Circulation of Persons ; Common Market ; Common Foreign Policy ; Border Development ; Social Agenda ; Sustainable Development ; Economic Policies ; Business Directory ; Treaties and Legislation ; Statistics ; Documents.

Arachne @ Rutgers (ejournal)
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies

ARARA (ejournal)
Art and Architecture of the Americas
"Arara is an online journal relating to the Arts and Architecture of the Americas from pre-Columbian times to the present day. It is currently published twice a year and is edited by postgraduate students from the department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex."

Biblioteca Virtual en Salud (Spanish, English, Portuguese)
Virtual Health Library
Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Science Information
"...mission is to contribute to the development of the health in the countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean by promoting the use of health scientific and technical information."

Biblioteca Virtual de Literatura
"A Biblioteca Virtual de Literatura È um site na Internet com informaÁıes ˙teis para especialistas e pesquisadores, alunos e professores das diversas literaturas e tambÈm a leitores e usu·rios da rede em geral. Nela se encontram informaÁıes detalhadas sobre escritores e ensaÌstas; bibliotecas convencionais e virtuais; associaÁıes e academias; instituiÁıes de pesquisa; editoras e livrarias; bibliografias; criaÁ„o online; revistas eletrÙnicas; prÍmios e concursos e muito mais..."

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Bolivian Research Review
"...The Bolivian Research Review is a bi-annual, inter-disciplinary electronic journal dedicated to the advancement of research and knowledge concerning Bolivia."

[borderlines] Americas Program
"...goal is to help forge a new global affairs agenda for the U.S. government and people-one that makes the United States a more responsible global leader and partner. The primary way we do this is by producing policy reports, issue briefs, political commentary, and popular education materials offering essential information and credible, forward looking policy analysis."
Maintained by the Americas Program of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC)

CNNenEspañol.com
"Información actualizada sobre las noticias que ocurren en América latina, Estados Unidos y el mundo. Reportes sobre economía, tecnología, salud, deportes, finanzas y el mundo del espectáculo."

Country Health Profiles
Pan American Health Organization

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (English, Spanish or French)
"Priority Issues" include: Human Rights ; World Laws ; Abortion ; Contraception ; Adolescents ; FC/FGM.

[Cuba] Cuban Heritage Digital Collection
University of Miami - UM Digital Library Initiatives

[Cuba] Foreign Affairs
- Published by Council on Foreign Relations

Directorio Mundial de Periódicos en Español
 World-wide directory of newspapers in Spanish

El GÈnero en Historia
"This virtual volume serves as the initial stage of a needed text on gender history in Spanish, for a Latin
American audience. It presents an overview of the development of gender approaches over the last quarter century; describes and defines the analytical tools available to write history from a gender prespective;
provides researchers, teachers and students with a rich corpus of reading material; and introduces recent teaching and rapidly growing research on the field in Chile." [Description by Pablo Whipple Mor·n]
Electronic book by Anne Perotin-Dumon, Institute of History, Catholic University, Santiago, Chile, 2000

Foreign Affairs
- Published by the Council on Foreign Relations

Indigenous Language Institute
"...collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas."

  • Endangered Languages Database - (dead link)
    "This summary report includes one hundred and nine (109) language researchers reporting on 151 languages/dialects. Language researchers responded to our survey from Australia (3), Belize (1), Canada (8), China (1), Denmark (2), England (5), Germany (2), Hong Kong (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (5), Scotland (1), Spain (1), Venezuela (1), and the rest from the United States (75)."
    Linguistic Society of America / Committee on Endangered Languages & their Preservation.
  • Native Languages Revitalization Resource Directory - (dead link)
    "Here you will find information about Native language programs and practitioners, publications, organizations, and a variety of resources for those involved in, or interested in starting, a language revitalization program."

InfoNatura
"...provides conservation status, taxonomic, and distribution information for 5,500 bird and mammal species in Latin America and the Caribbean"
- A product of NaturServe

Inter-American Water Resources Network (English or Spanish)

International Brazilian Journal of Urology
"...provides access to the Contents, Abstracts, Full-Text Articles, Information for Authors, Author's Checklist and Urological Calendar. Also, the articles are fully searchable from January/February-2000 to present."
- Official Journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology

International Crisis Group - Latin America & Caribbean Program
"Working out of offices in Bogota, Crisis Group's Latin America program reports on reform, instability and conflict issues across the Andean region and keeps a watching brief on Haiti."

LAMúsiCa: Latin American Music Center Newsletter
Indiana University School of Music

The Latin American Development Archive
"LADARK contains data sets and other information useful to social scientists who are doing research on Latin American development."
Johns Hopkins University

Latin American Journalism Handbook
By Ron Mader

Latin American Outlook
Online publications from the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Lijphart Elections Archive
"...is a research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats. The Archive originally acquired print copies of the data and is now focusing on online data."
- University of California, San Diego Social Sciences & Humanities Library

Mapas de Venezuela
From the portal a-venezuela.com

Missouri Botanical Garden

  • Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador
    "The Internet version of the Catalogue of Vascular Plants of Ecuador (W≥CEC) is organized so that each botanical name has its own page that is linked to other pages. The Catalogue is designed to give users an overview of the plant species found in Ecuador and allows them to easily navigate and browse the information currently available."

National Academy Press (free online versions)

George Washington University - National Security Archive
"...an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

  • Brazil Marks 40th Anniversary of Military Coup
    "Declassified Documents Shed Light on U.S. Role"
    Includes audio tape of President Johnson urging taking "'every step that we can' to support overthrow of Joao Goulart."
    Edited by Peter Kornbluh, March 2004.
  • Chile: 16,000 Secret U.S. Documents Declassified
    "The release, totaling over 50,000 pages of State Department, CIA, White House, Defense and Justice Department records, represents the fourth and final ìtrancheî of the Clinton Administrationís special Chile Declassification Project ... The declassification includes 700 controversial CIA documents that the Directorate of Operations had refused to releaseórecords of U.S. covert operations between 1968 and 1975 to destabilize the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and, after the violent 1973 coup, to bolster the military regime of Augusto Pinochet."
    See also NSA's Chile Documentation Project - (dead link).
  • Guatemala Documentation Project - (dead link)
    Kate Doyle, Director
    • The Guatemalan Military: What the U.S. Files Reveal
      NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 32
      Presented in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1 June 2000
      "Archive's Guatemala Documentation Project releases two volume report and database on Guatemalan security forces."
  • Shoot Down in Peru
    The Secret U.S. Debate over Intelligence Sharing in Peru and Columbia (April 2001)
    Edited by Michael L. Evans

Newspapers
Latin American Network Information Center

Perspectives in Health (ejournal)
The Magazine of the Pan American Health Organization

Population Research Institute Working Papers

Political Database of the Americas
"...provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions, electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data."
Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies

Political Parties in the Americas
Georgetown University

SciILO - Scientific Electronic Library Online
"...Online is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries, it provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific literature, contributing to overcome the phenomena known as "lost science". In addition, the SciELO model comprises integrated procedures for the measurement of usage and impact of scientific journals."

Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

  • After September 11: Perspective from the Social Sciences
    "This website features an extraordinary and still-expanding collection of essays by leading social scientists from around the country and the world. These are efforts by social scientists to bring theoretical and empirical knowledge to bear on the events of Sept. 11, their precursors, and what comes after."
    Sections include: Globalization ; Fundamentalism (s) ; Terrorism & Democratic Virtues ; Competing Narratives ; New War ; New World Order ; The View from Latin America ; Building Peace ; Recovery.

Special Summit of the Americas
January 12-13, 2004, Monterrey, Mexico
"...will work basically on issues of social policy and equity, and look for a new agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean that transcends the Washington consensus..."
Includes daily updates and live transmission.
- Organization of American States

Tu Bibliotecario ElectrÛnico - Your Electronic Librarian
"Index of Web resources in Spanish, with emphasis on media and library tools."

U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

U.S. Department of State

  • Response to Terrorism - (dead link)

U.S. International Trade Commission

  • "The Economic Impact of US Sanctions with Respect to Cuba" - (dead link) [.pdf]

U.S. National Library of Medicine - History of Medicine

  • Medicine in the Americas, 1619-1914: A Digital Library
    "...is a digital library project providing scanned historical American medical books in pdf and as searchable text files. The project is aimed at the general public, with special emphasis on historians, students, clinicians, and librarians... The projectís goal is to provide original source materials on the development of medicine in the New World, including Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean. The History of Medicine Division hopes that including non-U.S. imprints will foster research on a wider variety of topics in the study of American medicine."

[Venezuela] Foreign Affairs
- Published by the Council on Foreign Relations

Dictionaries
Diccionario Anaya de la Lengua

Dicion·rio da LÌngua Portuguesa Online

Diccionario EspaÒol-Portugues

Academic Email Discussion Lists

H-Caribbean Discussion Network
"...is an H-Net discussion list and is sponsored by the Association of Caribbean Historians. The goals of this discussion list are multiple. Firstly, building on the work done by various associations and programs since the 1960s, one of the objectives of this list is to overcome the linguistic, political, and geographic fragmentation that has traditionally characterized the field and region. Secondly, this list will provide access to debates and discussions on Caribbean studies and act as a resource to academics teaching and researching in associated fields. Thirdly, this list will serve to reinforce the growing awareness of the region as an important and rich area for further research and study."

H-LatAm
H-Net Humanities Online
"...an international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History. It is a member of the H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online initiative."
Also includes a nice selection on Internet Resources

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